Tas. 6414, 
EUCHLANA toxvriays. 
Native of Guatemala. 
Nat. Ord. Graminrx.—Tribe OLyrEs, 
Genus Evucuiana, Schrader ; (Meissn. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 319.) 
Evucuizena lueurians; glabra, culmis robustis elatis dense fasciculatis sim- 
plicibus erectis foliosis, foliis 3-4—pedalibus elongato-lanceolatis longe acu- 
minatis planis junioribus marginibus cartilagineo-serrulatis multinerviis 
leevibus, ligula brevi membranacea integra v. fissa, spiculis 9 in spicas 
terminales unilaterales subcorymbosim fasciculatis dispositis 2-floris, glu- 
mis vacuis scaberulis ovato-lanceolatis exteriore multinervi glumis flo- 
riferis paleis angustioribus floris inferioris 3-nervi superioris 1-nervi, 
lodiculis subquadratis carnosulis margine superiore crenato, spiculis ? in 
spicas elongatas alternatim dispositis et in cameris racheos profundere 
cavati. 
E. luxurians, Duritu de Maisonneuve et Ascherson in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn., 
Paris, No. 14, p. 105 (January, 1877). 
Reana luxurians, Durizu in Bull. Soc. d’ Acclim., Ser. 2, vol. ix. p. 581 (1872). 
Few fodder grasses have of late years attracted more atten- 
tion than the magnificent plant here figured, whether for its 
supposed value or for its botanical interest. The first notice 
of it is contained in an interesting article communicated by 
the late M. Duriéu de Maisonneuve (Director of the Botanical 
Garden at Bordeaux) to the Acclimatation Society of France. 
in 1872, which states that the author received the seeds from 
the Society about four years previously under the name of 
Teosinté, and as coming from Guatemala, From experiments 
made with it in Bordeaux, Collioure, and Antibes, he pro- 
nounced it to be a plant of d'une végétation prodigieuse, every 
seed ‘producing about 100 stems, and these attaining 10 feet 
in height, but as incapable of flowering in these localities, 
and as cut down by the first frosts. From imperfect flowers 
produced at Antibes, he refers it to the genus Leana, which 
is a synonym of Luchlena, as pointed out by Ascherson in 
the paper quoted under the specific character. Latterly this 
grass has been successfully cultivated at Cairo, from whence 
we have received excellent specimens and seeds from Dr. 
Schweinfurth, and its valuable properties as a fodder grass 
have been abundantly verified. Seeds of it have been dis- 
tributed both from Kew and from Cairo, to Cyprus, and the 
East and West Indies, Australia, and tropical Africa. _ 
In a botanical point of view Huch/ena is a most inter- 
MARCH Ist, 1879. 
